Math City

Free Education Resources Directory

admin — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 12:19:15 +0000

Here is a free directory of educational resources that will be constantly updated. Use it and share it freely. Below is the code so that you can embed this in your school website or your blog.

NOTE – Because my blog is set up so narrow, I had to change the 600 pixels in the horizontal setting to about 480 to make it fit…

Math Vocabulary Words

admin — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 20:37:41 +0000

Math is not really about arithmetic, it’s about concepts, ideas, and analytical thinking. A habit of mind. It’s funny how important vocabulary turns out to be in capturing the key math concepts. This is why I was so pleased when I found this library of great math vocabulary terms. And they’re free! Enjoy.

Kindergarten Math Words

High School Math Words

Science & Math Curriuclum

admin — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 01:38:37 +0000

There’s a close relationship particularly in the early grades between many math and science skills. Here, from the good folk who have created the online primary science curriculum, Science4Us.com, is a little video about measurement. It’s good for math or science!

Click for a video with background information for teachers: Measurement Video

Learn Shapes, Play Games

admin — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 00:13:55 +0000

Todays math students have so many wonderful opportunities to play great math games!!! This post will highlight ten games to help kids learn their 2D shapes.

Operations Word Search

Geometry LetterFall

Geometry Word-O-Rama

The Plan for MathCity.com

admin — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 00:38:01 +0000

MathCity.com, the sister site to the very popular SpellingCity.com, also seeks to be provide a useful tool. The key is targeting really big needs, a great interface, and pricing so that all teachers, parents, and students can afford it.

The site’s mission is to be the primary supplementary resource for resolving some frequent stumbling blocks on the road to math mastery. The target areas:

Math Facts. These need to be memorized and we will provide a great set of multimedia tools for mastering and checking mastery.
Fractions. Principles of math learning sciences will be applied providing clear imagery, hands-on activities, plenty of practice, and reinforcement
Telling Time. More than ever, children seem to have trouble learning to tell time.
Probability and Chance. Causality and correlation. Come on people, lets learn it!

Stay tuned. To get the latest information, subscribe to this site or sign up for VocabularySpellingCity.com. We’ll certainly announce it there when MathCity.com is ready to rock and roll!

PS. The videos collected on this site are just interesting math materials that caught my eye on YouTube. They are not representative of our direction.

john aka the Mayor

Math and the real world

admin — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 23:28:18 +0000

I believe in math education the same way that I believe that children should read. If they can’t think quantitatively and logically about themselves and their world, they can’t understand very much.

I see daily examples of how math is part of my daily work and understanding of the world. I routinely see a convergence between common sense, basic arithmetic, and probability and statistics. For instance,

If I run the red light, probably nothing will happen. But if I run the red light every day for two weeks, I’ll probably get in an accident. And I run it every day for year, I’ll probably get in a lot of accidents.

This is both common sense and basic statistics.

This site is dedicated to much better math education. It’s driven by the same vision as those people making SpellingCity (what a hit!). We support math games. For the moment, we are in development and we are populating this site with some fun math games and math videos. Enjoy.

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